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How to make a FireWire audio device work on Mac OS Ventura

Thunderbolt is not that senior that you can drop FireWire audio just yet.

However, apparently Apple has discontinued the Firewire CoreAudio driver with macOS 13 Ventura. 

The question: is there a work-around yet to install the FireWire CoreAudio driver in MacOS 13?


Why is this important?

Typically, audio interfaces with FireWire are part of the premium market and basically very expensive. (in my case, the Duet 1 from Apogee)

As a good housefather, you would expect your investment to work over 20 years, because such a device does not break or deteriorate.

Thinking about the e-waste that dropping FireWire support in the software OS is about to create worldwide, this makes it altogether an irresponsible move: hence the need of a solution or a work-around.


MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 1:27 PM

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How to make a FireWire audio device work on Mac OS Ventura

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